Order Soricomorpha
Author
Wilson, Don E.
Author
Reeder, DeeAnn
text
2005
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Baltimore
Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1
220
311
book chapter
0-8018-8221-4
10.5281/zenodo.7316519
Episoriculus fumidus
(Thomas 1913)
[Soriculus] fumidus
Thomas 1913
,
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 11: 216
.
Type Locality:
Taiwan
, Chiai Hsien, "Mt. Arisan (= Alishan); Central Formosa. Alt. 8,000’ [
2438 m
]".
Vernacular Names:
Taiwanese Brown-toothed Shrew
.
Distribution:
Montane forests of
Taiwan
.
Conservation:
IUCN
– Lower Risk (lc) as
Soriculus fumidus
.
Discussion:
Formerly included in
caudatus
by
Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951:59)
, but see
Jameson and Jones (1977:474)
and
Hoffmann (1985
b
)
, who included
sodalis
(now in
Chodsigoa
) in
fumidus
. Motokawa et al. (1998) described the karyotype (2n = 64, FN = 116) and distribution of
Episoriculus fumidus
that occurs symatrically with
Chodsigoa sodalis
in
Taiwan
. A RNA sequence was published by Querouil et al. (2001) and
Corneli (2002)
under the name
Soriculus fumidus
.